Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] xen: add block device backend driver.

From:

Samuel Thibault

Subject:

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] xen: add block device backend driver.

Date:

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:37:37 +0100

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Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14

Blue Swirl, le Mon 04 Aug 2008 20:26:42 +0300, a écrit :
> > + RING_PUSH_RESPONSES_AND_CHECK_NOTIFY(&blkdev->rings.common,
> > send_notify);
>
> EUGLY_LONG_NAME_WITH_ALL_CAPS
That's unfortunately the xen API.
> Why different protocols for i386 and x86_64?
Because the xen block shared structures have been defined at API level,
not ABI, so they differ.
> Would I need to add Sparc32 and Sparc64 versions some day?
Should there be a Xen port to these archs, yes.
Samuel